John Lear's List of Astronauts Statements... |
Opening Statement:
One of the major compononents of NASA's Big Lie is that you can't see stars in a vacuum. Thats why they say there are no stars in any Apollo photos taken on the moon. In "Carrying The Fire" by Michael Collins, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York copyright by Michael Collins 1974) Collins says as he is getting ready to exit Gemini 10 for a spacewalk (page 221), "My God, the stars are everywhere: above me on all sides, even below me somewhat, down there next to that obscure horizon. The stars are bright and they are steady. Of course I know that a star's twinkle is created by the atmosphere, and I have seen twinkle-less stars before in a planeterium, but this is different, this is no simulation, this is the best view of the universe that a human ever had." NASA has consistently airbrushed stars from every photo taken from the moon in an effort to embellish the Big Lie. Several of the Apollo astronauts wrote books about their adventure and slipped in a couple of nuggets for those of us willing to take the time to read and enjoy. I am going to start a list of those nuggets and begin with the first 2 which will be the statement above and the second will be Alan Bean's painting "Sunrise over Antares" showing a huge. glowing sun rising over the Lunar Lander Antares. Huge glowing sun? Oh, I forgot, the moon has no atmosphere, nothing that would refract the image of the sun. The sun should be a small round white ball. Silly me. John Lear |
The Beginning....
During a post Apollo 11 Press Conference, Patrick Moore asks the Apollo 11 crew; PATRICK MOORE: When you looked up at the sky, could you actually see the stars in the solar corona in spite of the glare? ARMSTRONG: We were never able to see stars from the lunar surface or on the daylight side of the Moon by eye without looking through the optics. I don't recall during the period of time that we were photographing the solar corona what stars we could see. COLLINS: I don't remember seeing any. Here is the Video Clip of the Press Conference http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1754803469580790620 |
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In "Carrying The Fire" by Michael Collins, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York copyright by Michael Collins 1974) Collins says as he is getting ready to exit Gemini 10 for a spacewalk (page 221), "My God, the stars are everywhere: above me on all sides, even below me somewhat, down there next to that obscure horizon. The stars are bright and they are steady. Of course I know that a star's twinkle is created by the atmosphere, and I have seen twinkle-less stars before in a planeterium, but this is different, this is no simulation, this is the best view of the universe that a human ever had." |
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"Sunrise over Antares"
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"It started in World War 2, when the government didn't want people to know about UFO reports in case they panicked," said Cooper. "They would have been fearful it was superior enemy technology that we had no defense against. "Then it got worse in the Cold War for the same reason. "So they told one untruth, they had to tell another to cover that one, then another, then another...it just snowballed. "And right now I'm convinced a lot of very embarrassed government officials are sitting there in Washington trying to figure a way to bring the truth out. They know it's got to come out one day, and I'm sure it will. "America has a right to know!" Astronaut Gordon Cooper |